Contrast is Content: Without Contrast, It's Just Rough

A rustic scene where rough and fine are juxtaposed. Next to every rough surface is something delicate: a frameless clear glass panel in front of a dry-stacked stone wall, a thin, pencil-like black linear light below a rough-sawn wooden beam, a thin-rimmed handmade glass cup on a concrete countertop. Because of these delicate contrasts, the roughness appears to be a choice rather than a compromise. Avoid: making the entire space out of rough materials, making delicate elements too large and attention-grabbing, using equally rough furniture and objects, allowing the proportion of rough to fine to be too close, losing the sense of hierarchy.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個粗細並置的質樸畫面。每一處粗糙的表面旁邊都有一個精緻的東西:乾砌石牆前是一片無框的清玻璃、粗鋸木樑下方是一盞細如鉛筆的黑色線燈、混凝土檯面上放著一只薄口的手工玻璃杯。因為有這些細緻的對照,粗糙才顯得是選擇而不是將就。避免:讓整個空間都是粗糙的材料、把細緻的元素做得太大搶戲、使用同樣粗糙的家具與器物、讓粗與細的比例接近失去主從。